Basically ive started doing a heap of woodworking at home, mainly for people i know. coffee tables, wine racks, shelves...etc etc etc and a rather cool looking table i just wanted to do (youtube k1 infinity table)

now theres a heap of stuff I dont know about woodworking, and as im pretty precise i like to get it right the first time so I do my research.

Ive been looking but there is no (as far as google is telling me) new zealand forums relating to 'how to' anything woodworking.The closest i found was an international one that is FULL of advertising....ive NEVER seen so much advertising on a forum. huge turn off. that and i like to keep things local when i can....help out my neighbour before the guy down the road kinda thing.

So i thought of starting my own. doesnt need to be flash....just a simple forum that supports users uploading photos of there work.......or a forum and something else linked to it for the photos.

A heap of years ago i hosted a forum, and the main reason i brought it down was because I had so many problems with bots registering and posting(that and i didnt _really_ have a reason for it). I spent hours in the settings playing. having to register with a valid email, those picture codes you have to enter etc etc.

Im paying for hosting at the moment for a website im not using...its got Direct admin with installatron.Forum software under there is:Vanilla ForumsphpBBXMB ForumSMF - simple machines forum

Basically I dont want to go through the hasstle of changing domain names and trying to setup something that is going to fail because I get feedup with the software.It would be nice to have a simple to use woodworking community, DIY place or whatever else that relevant.ie, next time someone wants to knock down there bathroom wall or something (we're kiwis....we always give it a go first)...theres a place to go and ask how to do it without the house falling down.

I have a heap of projects, and snowboarding is coming up so even less time....Im not worried about setup time...but I dont have time to be having to monitor the thing every day to make sure its not getting screwed up.

Just after some advise of which software to use...pro's and con's, what sort of upkeep its going to require. etc etcor then again, if someone does know of a website that already exists...even better!

During install i set the same admin username and passwordsmf was nice, but doesnt have some of the functions i was after.XMB was good.....but there was something in the setup that really got me (it was about a week ago that i did the test)phpBB just wouldnt accept the username and password, so i couldnt access admin, so i couldnt try anything.I spent a couple of hours on the other 2, so by the time i got to phpBB i decided to postpone.

After dinner ill see if i can install vBulletin and get access to phpBB (either re-install or reset password)Also just looking at the demo video for joomla, might see what thats about as well

good choice! as for images... just do a google search, I did one right now to check and saw heaps of results discussing this very problem (personally images are rarely used on my forums so I don't bother)

Ill look into it.I spent a fair ammount of time adding the current starting data and setting it all up.Could spend a long time doing other bits and pieces...for now ill leave it, and if the site takes off ill look into options.